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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on.

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Disclaimer Friday, May 6, 2011 Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona nonprofit sector! It was a great week for learning and connecting, with over 500 people attending the Phoenix Business Journals Fourth Annual Nonprofit Business Summit , which engaged nonprofit and business leaders in dialogue and educational sessions.

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Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities?

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is a rich country and, as of 2011, ranks as the most generous nation in the world, 1 only five percent of its charitable giving goes to international causes. I am a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at Arizona State University and work for the ASU Lodestar Center. is a question I often hear people ask. Get another!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: All You Need is Love. and a Whole Lot.

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Disclaimer Wednesday, April 27, 2011 All You Need is Love. Funny thing is, I learned the exact same thing in just one day while attending the ASU Lodestar Centers 2011 Forum on Nonprofit Effectiveness. April 28, 2011 1:57 PM Sarah H said. April 28, 2011 4:42 PM Christian Vasquezsaid. May 1, 2011 11:34 PM Paulsaid.

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Walking the Tight Rope: Finding Work-Life Balance in the Nonprofit Sector

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Mary's Food Bank Alliance in Phoenix. Laci Lester is a Program Manager with ASU Lodestar Center's Public Allies Arizona program and a board member of YNPN Phoenix. Laci is an Adult Degree Program student at Prescott College , and she plans to receive her bachelor's of arts in psychology in Fall 2011.

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Switching gears: How I found my place in volunteering

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During my last year as a student at ASU, I completed a youth ministry internship at the All Saints Catholic Newman Center on the Tempe campus. Vincent de Paul Church in Phoenix. Join business, government, and nonprofit leaders at the 2011 Annual Nonprofit Conference on Sustainability Strategies on Collective Impact.

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Nonprofit Start-Up Fever Hits the Valley, Sweeps the Nation

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The graph and the data I used to create it is material for one of my graduate seminars at ASU called The Nonprofit Sector , and students always seem interested in thinking about why exemptions might bounce around from year to year. The earlier high point had come in September 2011, with 84 exemptions approved.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: American Humanics: An Elite Group

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Disclaimer Tuesday, May 17, 2011 American Humanics: An Elite Group posted by Lyn McDonough , American Humanics Program Coordinator Senior, ASU Lodestar Center "The few, the proud." But I think it fits the graduating class of American Humanics (AH) students, all 18 of them. Okay, okay — I stole this slogan from the U.S.

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